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Home My WebLink About96-01929 '.'1' . ~ j !: 1. I I , f' ! I t= I , i J I CT' " cr - . -' cr . ~l I " ."....... , -'~a IIJ.ftInOHaTtllIBTl''.-(-,c;4};;;- -t' 'i.JT:iii;;,J', T""sS~~""i , (" c'r1.b~1 ,:,.",.~m" ,(c)i,,{: ':~:'~~ ";. f'(~!i";?::2>~J:" "', JANET NOCHO, Plaintiff V. R, MICHAEL BAL'l'IMORE, Defendant IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA NO. 96-1929 CIVIL TERM ORDER OF COURT AND NOW, thiB _ day of , 1996, in con Bide ration of the foregoing Petition, , EBq., , Esq., I1nd , EBq, ure appointed 118 urbitratorB in the above-cl1ptioned I1ction as prayed for. P.J. ~< ~~ Ilotn ~~ S ~Ilo ~ 8~.~ H ~ ~ o 'H o l..l .....l..lZ S 00\ 8~B~ s<' ~l>lH~ Z ~c:i j In , ., tt,l , . , /< l. , r " 0 " , . , l !~ " ,. 0 , , , li-l li-l 'M .~ OS:: is '@ O..-l Zllo E-< ~ , :> . ~ ~ t::~ ~m ~'tl ~~ !ij E-< Z H ;:S ~ l..l .... lol 8 ~ Q ~ ~ < ~~Vl~~ CIl c :l ~ ~ -" (;j ~ ~ 0 jI] ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ < ~ J . JANET NOCHO, Plaintiff IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA CIVIL ACTION - LAW v. NO. 96-1929 CIVIL TERM R. MICHAEL BALTIMORE, Defendant NOTICE You have been sued in Court. If you wish to defend against the claims set forth in the following pages, you must take action within twenty (20) days after the pleadings and Notice are served, filing in writing with the Court your defenses or objections to the claims set forth against you. You are warned that if you fail to do so the case may proceed without you and a judgment may be entered against you by the Court without further notice for any money claimed in the pleadings or for any other claim of relief requested by the Plaintiff. You may lose money or property or other rights important to you. YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS PAPER TO YOUR LAWYER AT ONCE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LAWYER OR CANNOT AFFORD ONE, GO TO OR TELEPHONE THE OFFICE SET FORTH BELOW TO FIND OUT WHERE YOU CAN GET LEGAL HELP. Court Administrator Fourth Floor Cumberland County Courthouse Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013 Telephone: (717) 240-6200 waf!:J;U: t::~ supreme Court No. 15712 53 West Pomfret Street Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013 Telephone: 717-243-0220 Attorney for Plaintiff WAYNIl F. SIIAIlIl AUumty I' Law 3JWnll'm1rrTlStrrrl l'a.lidt. I'tnnJ)lnnl.ll 110ll ft 6. It is udmitted thut R. Michuel BuWmore hus occupied the residence ut 36 Eust Locust Avenue, Curlisle, Cumberlund County, Pennsylvuniu sinco December 1904. It is further udmitted thut the very recento 1906 request of Junet D, Nocho thut Mr. Dultimore vacute the residence hus not been complied with becuuse of Ms, Nocho'slack of authority to multe such demunds, 7. Defendunt udmits thut Junet 13, Nocho pursued u Lundlord/'renunt eviction proceeding, It hus continuully been Defendunt's position thut the mechunism by which Mr. Bultimore would be evicted from the residenceo if he were to be evicted, should be under the Lal1dlordlTenunt Act. Mr. Dultimore hus never conceded that Janet Do Nocho hus the authority herself to initiute such un eviction proceeding. 8. Denied, District Justice Correul dismissed the Complulnt for Possession which was med by Junet D. Nocho, without prejudice, und observed only the following: "It appeurs that the identity of the Executor(s) of the Estate of Mildred P. Dultlmore is questionable. Therefore, I believe the proper forum for eviction proceedings is in the Court of Common Pleus." Defendant asserts thut after clurification us to who hUB power of executor, uny executor would huve the uuthority to initiute un eviction proceeding, so long as there would be a busis under the LundJordl'l'el1unt Act for evicting the tenunt. O. Admitted, However, she dismissed the uctlon without prejudice, and sho did not suggest thut the usuul compulsory Arbitl'utlon rules should he hypussed, 100 Admitted, 11. Denied, The following issues llI'e presented to the COUl'l for determinution ut its heuring on Muy 6, 1006: Whether Hohert L. Bultimore should be disqulllified as personlll representutive of the estate; whether Richard Michael BllItimore sho.lid bo disqulllifiod as porsonlll roprosontutive of the ostutOj whother Janet B. Nocho should bo qulllifiod us porsonlll ropresontntivo of the estato; and whether the lifo interoat of Junot B. Nocho in tho rosidonco locuted ut 36 E. Locust Avenue should be doclared terminuted, The proceedings scheduled for Muy 6, 1996 do not involvo quostions of eviction of Richard Michoel BllItimore from the residence on Locust Avenueo nor do thoy involve uny isallea huving to do with the Pennsylvaniu Lundlord/Tenunt Act. Defendunt herein aaserts thut the PluintilT's request for consolidation ia being offered us u mechunism to bypuss the usulll procodures involved in the hundling of a Landlord/Tenant appew and that the usulll procedures should be implemented. 120 Denied, for the reasons stated in paragraph 11 and for the reasons stated in Defendant's new matter below. 13. Denied. It is admitted that Janet B, Nocho requested that Defendant R. Michael BllItimore agree to consolidation and that a reply would not have been received by the time of the Plwntifrs motion. However a reply was forwarded by Defendant before Defendant received service of the motion or rule to show cause. The Defendant refuses to agreo to a consolidation for the reasons stated within this Answer and New Matter. NEW MATI'ER 4 -.II, 14. The purties in the Landlord/Tenant proceeding ure Janet B. Nocho and Ro Michael Baltimore, The parties in the estate proceeding include all five of the sisters and brothers with interests under the Last Will and 'restU1l1ent of their mother, Mildred p, Baltimore, They include Janet B. Nacho, R. Michllel Baltimore, Julian O. Baltimore, Robert Baltimore, and Ronald Bnltimore. 150 Proceedings for eviction under the Landlord/Tenllnt Act of Pennsylvania ure governed by Rules 501-582 of the Rules of Civil Procedure Governing Actions and Proceedings before District Justices. Rule 1007 of the District Justice Rules provides that proceedings on appeal from ajudgment of a District Justice ure to be conducted de novo in accordance with the Rules of Civil Procedure that would be applicable If the action was initially commenced in the Court of Common Pleas. 16. Pursuant to Cumberland County Rules of Court No. 1301-1, the Landlord/Tenant appeal which was filed by Janet B. Nocho following the decision of District Justice Correal would be appropriate for submission to a three member urbitration panel. 170 Following her appenl, Janet B. Nocho filed with this Court on April 15, 1996, a Complaint, seeking possession of the real property. On April 26, 1996, the Defendant filed an Answer to the Complaint. 18, On April 26, 1996, the Defendant filed a Petition for Appointment of Arbitrators. 19. Under the Compulsory Arbitrlltion Rules of this Court, this matter is appropriate for appointment of urbitrators, not for heuring by a Judge. 5 WHEREFORE, for the above-referenced reaaons, and especinlly because a) the parties are not identical, and b) appeals from Landlord/Tenant Act decisions are appropriate for compulsory arbitration, Defendant/Respondent respectfully requests that this Honorable Court deny Plaintiff's Motion to Consolidate the Landlord/Tenant matter with the estate proceedings, Respectfully submitted, _. .--- ~. 0~- /'~0-;~~;e:>, -~ .-' - .,/-'" ...... - /" 'BY: Samuel Wo Milkeso Esq. JACOBSEN & MILKES 52 E. High Street Carlisle, PA 17013 (717) 249.6427 Attorney No. 30130 6 JANET NOCHO, Plaintiff IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA CIVIL ACTION - LAW v. NO. 96-1929 CIVIL TERM R. MICHAEL BALTIMORE, Defendant PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR CONSOLIDATION 1. Plaintiff JANET NOCHO is an adult individual who rosides at 34 East Locust Avenue, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania 17013. 2. Defendant R. MICHAEL BALTIMORE, also known as Richard Michael Baltimore, is an adult individual who resides at 36 East Locust Avenue, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania 17013. 3. Plaintiff and Defendant are brother and sister and two of the five children of Mildred P. Baltimore, Deceased. 4. On May 6, 1996, a hearing is scheduled in the Orphanso Court Division of this Court in the Estate of Mildred P. Baltimore docketed to No. 21-94-833. 5. The hearing will be addressing issues of the validity of the life estate of Plaintiff JANET NOCHO in her mother's residence and the request of Plaintiff JANET NOCHO for disqualification of Defendant R. MICHAEL BALTIMORE as Executor in the Estate. WAYNIII', SUAII!! AI1omc)'.'....w 53 Wt'lt ranfrrt Sind C"Udt. l'rMI)'lvanla IlOIl WAYi'll! F. SnAll1! AlSomt)'all.aw H Weal runrrc1 HIm'I Carliale,llnwu)'lvula 17011 ... ' 6. Defendant R. MICHAEL BALTIMORE has been occupying his mother's residence and has refused the demands of Plaintiff JANET NOCHO that he vacate the premises. 7. Although it is the position of Plaintiff JANET NOCHO that Defendant R. MICHAEL BALTIMORE has been nothing more than a gratuitous licensee in the property, Plaintiff JANET NOCHO acceded to the suggestion of Defendant R. MICHAEL BALTIMORE to pursue his eviction as a landlord-tenant matter rather than seeking to have him removed as a trespasser. 8. A hearing was held on the eviction proceedings on April 2, 1996. Plaintiff's Complaint was dismissed by District Justice Paula p, Correal without prejudice on the basis of the standing of Plaintiff JANET NOCHO as life tenant and proper personal representative of the Estate. 9. District Justice Correal opined that the proper forum for the eviction proceedings was the Court of Common Pleas. 10. Plaintiff JANET NOCHO has filed the above-captioned timely appeal of that decision and a Complaint herein to get the case in this Court. -2- WAVNIl F, SHAIlIl Attomcy a'taw .51Wr.ll'oolrrttSlrftt earli.le, rmnl)lvania \101l 11. All of the issues involved in the above-captioned eviction proceedings will be the same issues which are involved in the hearing schoduled for May 6, 1996, at No. 21-94-833. 12. Judicial economy and consistency of decisions will be served by consolidating the above-captioned eviction proceedings with the proceedings previously scheduled to be heard on May 6, 1996. 13. plaintiff JANET NOCHO has requested that Defendant R. MICHAEL BALTIMORE agree to consolidation but has failed to receive a response. WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully requests that your Honorable Court issue a Rule upon Defendant to show cause why the issue of his eviction from the real estate in which plaintiff JANET NOCHO was devised a life estate should not be joined with the issue of the disqualification of Defendant R. MICHAEL BALTIMORE as Executor of the Estate of Mildred p, Baltimore with all issues to be heard at the hearing scheduled on the Petition for Disqualification of Defendant R. Michael Baltimore as Executor of the Estate of Mildred P. Baltimore, which hearing is scheduled for Monday, May 6, 1996, at 2:00 P.M. in Courtroom No. 1 of the Cumberland County courthouse, carlisle, Pennsylvania. Respectfully submitted, tJV ~ r:-~& Wayn F. 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","',;i",i',-,j,',vA ",~'l , ,,,,,jj,,i(' ~U~",I70".30U' .:.',,', 'jj~it-.!',i.t"",I!"\''';';'~','~'';l. " dA~ ~ 'in\'tr!jI'::;:, .::,-, ;";'-"-" .',' - . '<:< '.- ~ - ,-,' if-'W:f)'iil"{.~:1.Y'},T;,,If.'fr;!!~~l..~I;~ii';',- :i;~q~ ~ "i"j,; :' -i:....\i/,: ,,_'7).~~1,'-,\~\ ., '-}:'\i1~%'t\~W'~'-l~:~>;f.1~..:\1~j:-;-J,l~ , . ~f_-.{{~~~~li:r'-:::,.;'~::~,(::::~}i:;}L:fiY:~:'.\ ;0'. "' .,- ,;;!~t!;l~\i~;;~~tf(;~:~j~~5Y':';:~~;f:&~vfii~' V. IN THE COUR1' Ol~ COMMON PLEAS Ol~ CUMBlmLANDCOUN'l'Y, PENNSYLVANIA NO. !lO.IO:.!!) CIVIL 1'gRM JANET NOCHO, Plnintiff It. MICHAEL BALTIMORE, Defendunt ANSWER 1. Admitted. 2. Admitted, 3, Admitted. 4. Denied. While the Plnintiffwus inltiully designuted us u life tenont under the Lost Will und rl'e~tument of her mother, Mildred P. Baltimore, the life tenuncy WUB conditio nul, und cume with certain obligutions of the Plaintiff, specified us follows: "I give, devise und bequeuth my personul resldcnce of 36 Eo Locust Avenue, Curlisle, Cumberlund County, Pennsylvunlo, unto my duughter, JANET B. NOCHO, for so long us she shull continue to utilize It us her principul pluce of residencc und puy ull reul estute tuxes, utility expenscs, und reusonuble maintenunce expenses und Insurunce premiums." A copy of the Lust WIIl und Tcstument Is uttuched hcreto. By wuy of further response, Defcndunt usserts thut Junet B, Nocho hus failed to comply with the conditions upon her life tenency und thercfore iH no 10ngO!' u life tenunt. She hus not reHided in the home ut 30 Locust Avenue. She hus not puid the utility expenses connected with this residence. She Is not uble to claim u life tenuncy In this residence. Ii, Admitted thut Defendunt mukes this c1ulm. 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CORREAL .,,,,,,.. EAS'I' WING - COUROl'1I0USE 1 COUR'l'/JOUSE SQUAIlE CAIlLISLE, PA ,.,.,0""" 17171 240-6564 17013-0000 PAULA P. COIlIlEAI. EASol' WING - CQUROl'1I0USE 1 COURTHOUSE SQUARE CAIlLISLE, PA 17013-0000 NOTICE OF JUDGMENT/TRANSCRIPT I'IAINrIrF: I"NOC/JO, JANET 34 E. LOCUST CARLISLE, FA L "^~F. .nlt ^U(1JlEfUl -1 AVE. 17013 .J V5. DEFENDANT: fii NAMt Il.nd "uonrGS BAL'l'IMORE, R. MICHAEL 36 E. LOCUST AVE. CAIlLISLE, PA 17013 L -, Duckol No.: LT-0000155-96 Dnlo Fllod: 3/25/96 RESIDENTIAL LEASE THIS IS TO NOTIFY YOU THAT: Judgmont: DISf1lSs.EILWLo-UEJUDICE B Judgmonl was OIltorod for: (Nnmo) _ Judgmont was ontmod against: (NOIno) Irllhe omounl 01 $ 011', (Dato 01 Ju"grl1oI1t) o Judgmont was onlorod ognlnsl ' u LnndlordfTennnt nctlonlnthe amount of $ on The amounl of ronl per monlh, as eslabllshedlJy the District Justice, Is $ o Damages wlllLJe assessed on: (Dote & Time) 1Rl o o o o o OLJjectlonto lovy hns been flied and hearing will be hold: ~" Time: This case dismissed without preJudice, (tt'. .. rO' ." '0'\"', ',t. ';\J") Possession granted, Possession granledlf money judgment Is nol satisfied by time of eviction, Possosslon not granled, Lovy Is slayod for days or 0 generally steyed. ~ P1~" Ins (Date of Judgmenl) Rent In arrears $ Darnagos Unjust Delentlon $ Darnnges to Propelty Rosldontlnl Leaso : $ Less Amt Duo Defendant - $ Amount of Judgment = $ Judgment Costs $ Intersst on Judgment $ Allorney Feos $ .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 TOTAL $ ANY PAn 1Y liAS TilE filGII T 10 APPEAL A JUDGMENT INVOL V/NG A nES/DENT/AL LEASE AND AFFECTING THE DELlVEnY OF POSSESSION OF ilEAl. pnoPEnTY WITHIN 10 DAYS OF TilE DATE OF JUDGMENT BY FILING A NOTICE OF Al'rEAI. WITII I liE rno III0NA TAllY/CI.EnK OF TIlE coun T OF COMMON PLEAS. CIVIL DIVISION, ANY PARTY AGGRIEVED BY A JUDGMENT FOR MONEY OR A JUDGMENT INVOLVING A NONRESIDENTIAL LEASE MAY APPEAL WITHIN 30 DAYS OF ENTRY OF THE JUDGMENT BY FILING A NOTICE OF APPEAL WllHTHE'" '.... 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